Victor Dzau Leaving Duke to Head the Institute of Medicine

February 19th, 2014

Victor Dzau Leaving Duke to Head the Institute of Medicine

Larry Husten, PHD

Cardiologist Victor Dzau will leave his positions as the chancellor for health affairs at Duke University and the CEO of the Duke University Health System to become the next president of the Institute of Medicine. He will replace Harvey Fineberg, who has been the IOM president for the last 12 years.

“I am humbled and honored to be selected to lead the IOM at a time of unprecedented opportunities and challenges in health, health care, and biomedical sciences,” said Dzau in a statement from the IOM. “Harvey Fineberg has been an exceptional leader of the IOM, and I am committed to building on his outstanding work and advancing the impact of the IOM on the nation and globally.”

Before moving to Duke almost a decade ago, Dzau was the chair of the department of medicine and director of research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic (Medicine) at Harvard Medical School. Prior to that, he had been the chair of the department of medicine at Stanford University. In his career as a researcher, Dzau played a key role in understanding the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.

Robert Califf, director of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute, sent the following comment:

This appointment is a real honor for Victor and for Duke. During his tenure, the instituiton has grown into an academic health and science system, made numerous scientific contributions and thrived financially.

Dzau was first elected to the IOM in 1998. He will begin his 6-year term as president on July 1.

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February 19th, 2014